An alternative or obsolete term for forecast, particularly used in archaic or dialectal English.
A combination of 'fore' (before) + 'cast' (throw or calculate), with 'forn' being a dialectal variant. This rare spelling appears in older texts and represents regional pronunciation variations that competed with the modern 'forecast' form.
If you saw 'forncast' in a 400-year-old document, you'd recognize it immediately as an ancestor of 'forecast'—it shows how English spelling wasn't standardized, and different regions pronounced and wrote words differently.
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